Does anyone have a full listing of the Jimmy Jacobs fight collection?

they paid $100-$10000 for fights, and he paid for the rights of fights as little as 1$ aka johnny saxton lol

 

he paid for the fight and the rights like i said above, he paid $100 to johnny saxton for a fight and $1 for the rights.

 

Ive often wondered if Tyson could shed light on what fights he had, what with him being able to access some (all?) of them.

Or maybe not

 

he had access to it all, the fact he had a 500 fight collection speaks volumes about how many really were/are owned by espn/big fights

 

If this is the case, and ive no reason to doubt it, then surely Tyson could answer the question regarding Greb. I read in an earlier post that there are a few on here who would know him, then surely they could just ask him if they exist or if hes seen them himself

 

This is My point to a tee!:thumbsup

 

Every time I see a new post on here I'm half hoping that someone has come up with the list.

 

I have a full listing of this collection. If anybody wants it, please send me a PM. I cannot just publicly post a list here, wouldn't be the right way to do it.
Some guy said La Starza vs Marciano I is in that list - but it is actually not in there.

 

B, they wouldn't accept E-mails PM
but

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I sent you the list - check the spam folder also.
You can edit your comment if you don't want to post your email publicly.

 

Just to be clear, if someone had a connection at ESPN, do you think it might be possible to view the films from the former Jacobs' collection?

 

If you knew the RIGHT person at ESPN ... maybe. But it's not like everyone at ESPN has a key to whatever vault they are stored in, and probably no one has the ability to "check out" the fights like books in a library.

Remember, these are films, the vast majority of which have almost certainly never been converted to video or digitized, and the older of which are probably in very delicate condition. I doubt they have a viewing room with 16mm and 8mm projectors, etc. Even someone working at ESPN can't go up to a counter and say, 'Go fetch me the Battling Siki fights, I'd like to give them a watching.'

In fact, it's almost a certainty that the collection isn't kept on the campus in Bristol -- more likely in New York wherever Cayton and Jacobs stored them in some incredibly climate-controlled facility.

 

I believe Steve Lott still owns some of the fights he auctioned off a ton of Tyson memorabilia a while back from the early days. Google will bring you to all the items and what they sold for. Trunks, gloves, shoes, etc. all from Tyson's biggest fights from '85-'88

Lott is now posting some of his films on a YouTube channel.

 

Fine, your prerogative, just recognize that makes you a ****.

 

Nobody put a gun to anybody's head and said "spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on an extremely rare collection".

If someone did spend that much of their own volition, we're equally free to criticize their reasons for doing so. Miserly reasons that have naught to do with the best long-term interests of the sport and its current and future generations of fans but rather to sit on and sell off piece by piece despite having far more supply than you could possibly find demand for with this being such a niche sport these days and the cross-section of diehard enthusiasts caring enough to loosen the purse-strings and those who can reasonably afford the asking price quite infinitesimally small, are IMO (and probably many others') shitty reasons.

You're basically saying "WHATEVER.... :roll:" to the very concept of philanthropy, of any selfless act done by a member of a close-knit fraternal community for its greater benefit.

So in your fantasy world there are no charitable acts, eh? Nobody ever invests their own personal time, money or effort into anything they believe in?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but if I inherited a fortune or hit a jackpot that would cover a collection of films that desperately need to be saved & digitized for posterity and made available in the public domain for historians and fans down through the ages (because there's no good reason for that not to happen, especially where technology now exists to facilitate it) - YES, I absolutely would at personal loss post every single film to Youtube. Except I wouldn't consider it a loss, as it would be a thing not only worth doing but long overdue. You only label it a "loss" because in that scenario there is no material gain. That's a pretty vulgar, cynical, small-minded view.

Anyone sitting on classic films they refuse to share in the hopes they'll someday make a mint from them (extremely implausible, and far likelier to lead to such films eventually being lost/forgotten about in some estate or worse, destroyed by the ravages of time or any number of factors) deserves to be robbed of those possessions and literally beaten to death.

...IMHO.